1. Computer People Reopen Art History Dispute.
- Author
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Boxer, Sarah
- Subjects
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RENAISSANCE art , *PERSPECTIVE (Art) , *PROPORTION (Art) , *SPACE perception , *GEOMETRICAL drawing , *OPTICS , *DEPTH of field , *COMPOSITION (Art) , *PAINTERS , *ARTISTS , *RENAISSANCE - Abstract
Focuses on a dispute over painter David Hockney's theory that early Renaissance painters used cameralike devices to paint with perfect perspective. Efforts of Microsoft researchers Antonio Criminisi and computer scientists David Stork to refute Hockney's controversial theory; Discussion of Stork and Criminisi's work, which relies on digital image registration techniques; How the perspective in the chandelier in van Eyck's 1434 painting "Portrait of Arnolfini and His Wife" does not agree with the perspective in photographs of such chandeliers.
- Published
- 2004